Improvement in row-looks foe boats



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l Letters Patent No. 69,899, dated October 15, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN ROW-LOOKS FOR BOATS.

To ALL WHoM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. BURROWS, of Mystic River, in the county of New London, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Row-Locks for Oers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of thisspeciicntiom in which- Y FigureI, a vertical longitudinal section of the thole, cap, and plete, in 'another-form.

Figure II is a plan ofthe same.

The same letters are employed in all the figures in the designation of identical parts.

The following description will enable one skilled in the nrt to construct my improved rowllock.

4 A, figs. 3 and 4, is a metallic plate, to be fixed permanently tothe gunwale of a. boat. B is the tholc, so lnn'., ta.ched permanently to the reversible cap C bya stem, B', passing through the same, that it may turn freely with the sweep of the oars. The cap C is attached by a. hinge, C', to the upper face of the plate A, and when the thole is in use itisfastened down against the plate by a button, D, passing through a slot 'in theplate, or in other equivalent manner. When the thole is not in use, it may be turned longitudinally with the plate A, the b utton D being detached, and the cap C reversed, by swinging upon'the hinge C', the thole passing through the slot A running. longitudinally in the 'plate A, and resting, as shown bythe red lines intig. 3, alongside of the g'unw'ale of the boat and below'the plate A, and entirely out of the way. y

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 1.y The slotted plate A, figs. 3 and 4, in combination with a reversible cap, C, hinged thereto, and revolving thole permanentlypattached to the cap, substantially-as set forth. i

2. In combination ywith the plate A, having'a longitudinal slot, A', the reversible cap and thole, and a button for securing the parts rigidly when in use, arranged substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES C. BURROWS.

Witnesses: y

A. G. FAIRBROTHER, GEO. PARK, 

